Oh Yes He Did: Putin Calls John Kerry a Liar

President of Men Vladimir Putin told a number of his advisers that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is a liar. Specifically, Putin said: “This was very unpleasant and surprising for me. We talk to them (the Americans) and we assume they are decent people, but he is lying and he knows that he is lying. This is sad.” It is, according to CBS News, “unclear exactly what Putin was referencing.”

CBS News guesses that the comment may have had something to do with Kerry’s statement on Tuesday that the Syrian opposition (the people the U.S. wants to . . . fight? No—help . . . help . . . for now) does not consist of al-Qaeda-associated religious extremists. According to Kerry, our friends-to-be, the anti–Bashar Assad Syrian opposition, is “increasingly become more defined by its moderation.”

Barack Obama, friend and employer of Kerry, will have the chance to follow-up with Putin directly, as he travels to Edward Snowden–filled Russia today to slog through all the bits of the much-dreaded G20 summit he couldn’t get out of. “Why is John a liar, Vladimir?” Obama will ask.